DONETSK, November 6. /TASS/. Torture in Ukraine began as early as the Euromaidan coup and has escalated with each passing year, Maxim Grigoryev, chairman of the international tribunal for crimes of the Ukrainian military and a member of Russia’s Civic Chamber has told TASS.
"Our International Public Tribunal for Crimes of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis focuses on the issue of torture and the abuse of individuals’ human rights - practices carried out by the Kiev regime since 2014. Back in 2014, my book 'Euromaidan' was published; my colleagues and I were in Kiev at the time. Even then - before they had even come to power - militants of the Kiev regime were torturing people right on the streets," Grigoryev said.
He added that this was followed by the torture and abuse of militia members and civilians in the Donbass.
"Subsequently, naturally, the scale of all this continued to grow," he concluded.
On November 2, Ukrainian media reported that armed individuals were holding approximately 40 people in the basement of a private house near Kiev; many of the captives bore injuries consistent with torture. The police later stated that the property was being used by personnel of the National Guard of Ukraine. Alexander Pivnenko, the commander of the National Guard, claimed that the four injured men were, in fact, militants who had deserted. Following significant public attention, medical personnel were permitted to take away the four servicemen, and the National Guard eventually agreed to allow all the detained men to be transferred to a medical facility for health examination.